John Gray Foster (May 27, 1823 – September 2, 1874) was an American soldier. A career military officer in the United States Army and a Union general during the American Civil War, he served in North and South Carolina during the war. A postbellum expert in underwater demolition, he wrote a treatise on the subject in 1869. He continued with the Army after the war, using his expertise as assistant to the Chief Engineer in Washington, DC and at a post on Lake Erie.
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27 May 1823 Whitefield, New Hampshire
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Died |
2 September 1874 (aged 51) Nashua, New Hampshire
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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